Often users needed to uninstall the NVIDIA’s userspace driver (like libGL, Xserver glx library, etc.) before updating to the latest Tumbleweed snapshot and reinstall the NVIDIA’s userspace driver afterward. Otherwise users may have ended up in a mess with Mesa overwriting NVIDIA’s userspace drivers.

In addition with every kernel update, users needed to recompile the kernel module due to possible Kernel Application Binary Interface (kABI) changes in a new Linux kernel. The easiest way to achieve this was to completely uninstall NVIDIA’s driver (“nvidia-installer –uninstall”) and reinstall it after the Tumbleweed update.

In snapshot 20170909, Mesa 17.2.0 implemented the OpenGL 4.5 Application Programming Interface; the announcement from Mesa suggest that people should stick with the previous version or wait for the 17.2.1 release because of driver support. Users who are blind or visually impaired will be pleased to know that BRLTTY, which drives the braille display and provides complete screen review functionality was updated to version 5.5. Also in the snapshot, the release of iproute2 4.13 brought improvements to the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF), which provides a raw interface to data link layers and permits raw link-layer packets to be sent and received. (more…)

Thank you for designing great logos and helping us to choose one from them.

As a result of the final vote, two candidates tied for the first place. openSUSE.Asia Summit Committee discussed which one should be this year’s logo.

The committee decided to use the fantastic work designed by Ramadoni Ashudi. The theme of the logo is Sakura (cherry blossoms) — a flower representing Japan. Moreover, the silhouette of cherry blossoms and Geeko are placed on Japanese flag.

Congratulations, Ramadoni! He will receive “Geeko Mystery Box.” Note that he was also the winner of the competition in 2016. The committee appreciates his continuous contribution.

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 is going to take place on October 21–22 at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan with 50 speakers coming from countries or regions including Indonesia, Taiwan, China. The committee hopes that many people will be able to join the summit.

Europeans can disagree on political issues, but there is one issue the open-source community is bringing to the political spectrum that many citizens can find agreement about; publicly funded software has to be Free and Open Source Software.

“Public institutions spend millions of euros each year on the development of new software tailored to their needs,” according to a release from the non-profit advocacy group Free Software Foundation Europe. “The procurement choices of the public sector play a significant role in determining which companies are allowed to compete and what software is supported with tax payers’ money.